People

OMB to close repository

OMB's Federal Enterprise Architecture Management System will be shut down in favor of CORE.gov.

Acquisition

OMB to send contracting report to Congress

The agency wants to convince members that best-value tradeoffs should not be limited.

People

Agencies use more early-outs, buyouts

A new GAO report states that the total number of agencies using such offers to adjust their workforces has increased in the past two fiscal years.

Acquisition

UPDATED: OMB clarifies business rules

The agency temporarily waives rules regarding advance payments.

People

Bill would require Congress to post lobbyist gifts

Members would have to publish on their official Web sites the cost of gifts and lobbyists' names.

People

GSA awards contract training deals

The agency called the awards to three firms the first major acquisition under the Acquisition Workforce Training Fund for training services from commercial vendors.

People

Espaol.gov adds e-mail alerts

The system is available on 17 of the site's most visited pages.

Acquisition

OMB: Bulk-buying can save money

Agencies have named five commodities that can be bought in bulk through strategic sourcing.

Cybersecurity

Union decries IRS for security weaknesses

The National Treasury Employees Union’s president today criticized the Internal Revenue Service for having weak information security controls.

People

GSA defines its challenges

Embattled agency officials maintain that changes will strengthen GSA

Digital Government

Anti-terrorism agencies get lowest grades

Davis chastises federal agencies for shortsighted attitudes toward FISMA

People

U.S. Access Board names Bibb chairman

The board is an independent federal agency that coordinates governmentwide efforts to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities.

Cybersecurity

IRS cracks down on phishers

You can now forward suspicious e-mail messages to the agency for inspection.

People

IRS.gov scores with citizens

Despite a slight overall decline in the first quarter of 2006, citizen satisfaction with many individual government Web sites rose substantially.

People

Employees like IRS remote access project

It also saves the agency money, the associate chief information officer for enterprise networks said.

Cybersecurity

GAO: IRS security is weak

Taxpayers’ financial and personal information remains at risk, a report states.

People

Taxpayers move to the Web

Percentage of taxpayers filing electronically is up from last year.

People

SiloSmashers wins OMB lines of business work

The BPA award includes work on managing programs, facilitation services and workforce planning, and IT strategy.

Digital Government

Union fights proposed tax regs

Colleen Kelley says the safeguard for tax preparers to get taxpayers' consent before releasing information "truly is meaningless."

Digital Government

Citizen satisfaction with government Web sites stalls

Quarterly measure shows slight drop, but certain sites show improvement, while the annual comparison shows an increase in satisfaction.